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Will Melinda Gates Change the Game for Women?
She plans to use the Gates Foundation’s billions to revolutionize contraception worldwide.
In the 12 years since Melinda Gates and her husband, Bill, created the Gates Foundation, the world’s largest philanthropic organization, she has done a lot of traveling. A reserved woman who has long been wary of the public glare attached to the Gates name, she comes alive, her associates say, when she’s visiting the foundation’s projects in remote corners of the world. “You get her out in the fi eld with a group of women, sitting on a mat or under a tree or in a hut, she is totally in her element, totally comfortable,” says Gary Darmstadt, director of family health at the foundation’s global health program.
Visiting vaccine programs in sub-Saharan Africa, Gates would often ask women at remote clinics what else they needed. Very often, she says, they would speak urgently about birth control. “Women sitting on a bench, 20 of them, immediately they’ll start speaking out and saying, ‘I wish I had that injection I used to get,’” says Gates. “‘I came to this clinic three months ago, and I got my injection. I came last week, and I couldn’t get it, and I’m here again.’”
They were talking about Depo-Provera, which is popular in many poor countries because women need to take it only four times a year, and because they can hide it, if necessary, from unsupportive husbands. As Gates discovered, injectable contraceptives, like many other forms of birth control, are frequently out of stock in clinics in the developing world, a result of both funding shortages and supply-chain problems. Women would tell her that they’d left their farms and walked for hours, sometimes with children in tow, often without the knowledge of their husbands, in their fruitless search for the shot. “I was just stunned by how vociferous women were about what they wanted,” she says.
Because of those women, Gates made a decision that’s likely to change lives all over the world. As she revealed in an exclusive interview with Newsweek, she has decided to make family planning her signature issue and primary public health a priority.
By Michelle Goldberg
The sentence “Gates would often ask women at remote clinics what else they needed” in the direct speech is
Gates will ask to the women at remote clinics “What else have you needed?”
“What else did you need?”, Gates asked women at remote clinics.
Gates often asked to the women at remote clinics: “What else does she need?”
“What else do you need?”, Gates usually asked women at remote clinics.
Gates occasionally questioned the women at remote clinics about what they needed.
Gabarito:
“What else do you need?”, Gates usually asked women at remote clinics.
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O leão e a raposa
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O leão e a raposa
Um 11leão envelhecido, 1não podendo mais procurar alimento por sua própria conta, julgou que devia arranjar um jeito de fazer isso. E, então, foi a uma caverna, deitou-se e se fingiu de doente. Dessa forma, quando 8recebia a visita de outros 13animais, ele 4os pegava e 5os comia. Depois que muitas 14feras 6 já tinham morrido, uma 12raposa, ciente da armadilha, parou a 9certa distância da caverna e perguntou ao leão como ele estava. Como ele 2respondesse: “Mal!” e lhe 3perguntasse 10por que ela não entrava, disse a raposa: “Ora, eu entraria 7se não visse marcas de muitos entrando, mas de ninguém saindo”.
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